Celebrating the 165th birthday of the great architect Vilhelm Bokslaff, the museum "Riga Art Nouveau Center" fro, 9th of November invites you to a special exhibition created for this occasion. It will feature several projects sesigned by the architect - both realized and unrealized.
Wilhelm Ludwig Nikolai Bockslaff (12.10.1858 in Riga - 09.03.1945 in Poznań) was a German-Baltic architect who designed several Latvian manor buildings, public buildings in Riga, Jūrmala, as well as buildings and structures outside the territory of Latvia.
Architect received his education at the Riga Polytechnic University, worked in the construction office of the architect Heinrich Scheel and then as an architect started an independent office. He was the architect of the Great Guild, the Stock Exchange Committee and other institutions. In 1901, according to the architect's project, the Jaunmoku Palace belonging to Georg Armitstead was built, from 1902 to 1905 designed one of his best-known buildings - the commercial school building of the Riga Stock Exchange Committee in the "brick Gothic" style (now the building of the Latvian Academy of Arts). In 1903, the tenement house of Ludwig Neiburg was also built in Jauniela.
The exhibition will be on view in the museum until December 3, 2023.